Building and Maintaining an Open Source Community: How to Get Developer Attention

by Ben Pearson

June 18th, 2014

It takes considerable hard work to build a strong open source community. First, you must select a license that allows you to accomplish your goals with the project, then you need to reach out to various developer communities to get them involved. Finally, effort must be spent sustaining involvement from the community through things like hackathons, gamification, and advocacy.